October 30, 2011

Recipe Of The week-Steaky!Steaky!

One of our favourite foods on the dinner table is a juicy pepper steak with black pepper sauce, sauted veggies and baked potatoes

Today will share how I cook it(its a mix of 2-3 recipes, because I usually make slight changes in it according to my taste-you can also do the same)-its an easy peasy, quick steak for busy moms like me. I have used the quick sauce here will blog about the long basic recipe some other time too :)

Pepper Steak with sauted veggies & baked potato wedges




The pepper steak sauce I use & love.


The Recipe:

(this recipe cooks for two)

Ingredients: marinade for steak:
2 beef steaks fillets
Ketchup 1/2 cup
Soy sauce 2 tpsp
Lemon juice/vinegar 1 tbsp
salt & black pepper 1 tsp
mustard 1 tsp
ginger paste 1 tsp
Oil 1 tbsp

For Baked potatoes:
(use as needed)
paprika
salt
thyme
oregano
(and cheese if you like)

For Sauted vegatables:
1 can mushrooms
1 bell pepper diced
1 onion diced
corn & carrots (if you like)

Method:


Hammer the beef fillet with a steak hammer and marinate in the marination for 2-4 hours (the more, the better)

Meanwhile cut potatoes in wedges or thick slices, grease a baking dish & add spices to the wedges and bake for 25-35 mins (you can check every 15 mins) at 200 degrees C-cover the dish with foil.

Saute the veggies in butter or olive oil for few minutes.

After the beef is marinated well (2-4 hours) heat a grill pan (preferrably) or a simple pan and add 2-3 tbsp oil. Cook the steaks at very low heat with the lid on. Dont let it overcook & dry out but dont let it be undercooked & raw.

The beef takes minimum 30 mins to cook depending upon the marination and the beef type.

Once done turn the heat high for few minutes to get that grilled look.

Serve hot with this bottled blackpepper sauce or a homemade sauce on top of the steak, with wedges & sauted veggies.

(End Notes)-

*You can add a cheese slice on top of the already baked potato wedges and closed the foil again the cheese will melt in seconds. I used Almarai (cheese slices)

*Got the beef fillets from Tamimi

*The pepper steak sauce is from Danube-Hayat Mall

*You can add or subtract stuff as you like & according to your own taste.


Bon Appetit! :)

My Favourite Hot Spot Of The Week-Maya La Chocolaterie

"Chocolate is the only aromatherapy I need."
Jasmine Heiler



Chocolate Brownie with vanilla icecream




Cinnamon Rolls



Chocolate Fondant



Chocolate...Oh yes! Who can say no? Especially if you share it with a bunch of friends and few good laughs! Over a cup of hot chocolate, or fondue, caramel drizzled, chewy, fudgdy brownies & a scoop of vanilla icecream....ahhh heaven! And of all these places I love going to, for my (now & then) 'aromatherapy' is Maya, its a lovely cosy joint for all chocolate lovers. Must try...quite rushy on weekends.

For all Riyadh,KSA foodies with a sweet tooth this is a must go place :)

Maya - Saudi Arabia
Al Tahliya Street, Riyadh.

October 29, 2011

And...Iam Back...


Its been sooo long since I last blogged, our son is 3 years old now masha Allah and have been a busy momma! Been busy and yes very lazy! Now my blog is public because from now on will be sharing not only my mommyhood experiences but also my shopping trips, hauls, my passion-cooking, my travel tales, my favourite things to do, places to eat etc. Hope I dont go all lazy again have updated the whole thing & planning to stick to it now...lets see :)

Coming back to my little handsome hunk who gave me quite a hard time is now going to school (playschool) and learning quite a lot, growing each day masha Allah!

Will be updating the blog very soon with all the new stuff & updates.

December 6, 2008

Getting "some" sleep...thanks to....



The picture says it all...fisher-price bouncer gives us our much neded sleep the vibrations and the lsw bouncy movements can put Rayyan to sleep for minimum 1 hour to maximum 3 hours! Heaven...... :D

Rayyan 2 months old and Eiiiid :)

Ok so here comes Eid...though Rayyan was supposed to be my Eid present he came as an "early" Eid present! Here are some pix from our Eid dinners and lunches :)






Phew! i had to so much work to do!

Weighty matters...





Ok...so here's the sad part of my life...my weight...ugggh...as you all know and read before how much I had gained during the third trimester, the "grand total" was..."drum roll" 50 pounds....yeah u heard me...50 pounds on my poor 5'4 and 115 pound body :(

So am working harrrd on it with walk and cutting down junk and have gone to minus 25 pounds...25 more to go....phew!

Rayyan 4-5 weeks old



Sleepy Rayyan



Angry Rayyan



Excited Rayyan



Rayyan thinking...when to cry next :P


Masha Allah my baby is getting big and stronger everyday and now responds very well mainly by crying a LOT and frowning...hehehe...he now makes these strange funny faces as if he is talking to us!

Bottle feeding :P



There's nothing much goin on in life except Rayyan...he does not sleep well and doesnt eat well at times...we have tried dream feeding him but apparently he's too small for that so we try to stuff him but he eats only as much as "he" wants so...that's hardly 1-1.5 oz for now...

My mom has bin a biiig help through out i dunno what would I have done without her as I am not breastfeeding cos Rayyan dint suck much and slowly and gradually milk just dried up....I used pumps but Rayyan dint like mommy milk much cos he had already been used to formula for 10 days at the hospital :(

I was already so upset about not being able to breastfeed and along came people's comments about how I was unable to breastfeed and how I was taking the easy way out by formual feeding...it hurt sooo much and I cried a lot thinking I was a bad mother for not taking care of myself or my baby in the first place and now this!

But Alhamdulilah my loved ones supported me and friends helped a LOT...and those days are far behind :) So all you mommies, breast or bottle...Be Proud! :D

One month old...Aug.28,2008



Yesssssss finally 30 days have already passed and Rayyan is almost 3 kilos :) My tiny miracle x

25 days old and first day out...




The docs instructed us that we could not take Rayyan out to public places and not much people could come to visit us because of high probabilty of germs and virals because Rayyan is still small and has weak immune system...but today we went out for a quick dinner and yes Rayyan enjoyed it :)

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